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Gad Saad joins contributing editor Mark Bauerlein to discuss his recent book “The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas are Killing Common Sense.”
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Fascinating.
I can understand “transgender rights,” if by what is meant by that is the right of a man who believes himself to be a woman not to be mistreated for his delusion–any more than someone who believes himself to be Dwight D. Eisenhower or a poached egg. The question–and here I confess that I stopped listening to the podcast–is whether we as a society allow ourselves to be browbeaten into accepting the delusion as reality–something Dr. Saad clearly opposes.
In (selectively) rejecting reason, post-modernism does not become a pseudo-religion; it merely becomes just another irrational ideology. Furthermore, while radical subjectivism certainly bolsters the profoundly anti-scientific idea of transgenderism, it is not the only explanatory factor. Revolutionary movements must constantly grow ever more ferocious and ruthless; otherwise, they fizzle out, with an inevitable reaction and some sort of return to sanity. The astounding triumph of the homosexual cause was threatened by a sense of letdown, and so along came even wilder assertions with which to badger the bourgeoisie.
Jews and Christians do not deny biological reality; they affirm it:
ברא אתו זכר ונקבה ברא אתם
Male and female He made them. (Genesis 1:27)